Topband: How good is good enough

[m.r.c.]

DXpediton style

take 3-4 feet of bare solid # 10 # 12 copper wire and make a loop around the 
base of the antenna support- make it larger if necessary, wrap and solder the 
ends of the loop

Wrap a couple turns from each radial around the loop wire.  Solder.  The joints 
are far enough apart to make soldering reasonably easy even with MANY radials.

If you must use a dis similar metal, use the same technique and split bolt wire 
clamps, feed two at a time through each split bolt

Run as heavy a wire as you think necessary from the ground ring to the feedline 
shield, transformer return, whatever goes to ground.

Robin
WA6CDR
VP6DX, etc


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2022 10:13
Subject: Re: Topband: How good is good enough


> On 11/12/2022 10:02 AM, CUTTER DAVID via Topband wrote:
>> I'd be interested to know how you make the joints, then add joints to joints, 
>> then...doesn't it get a bit lumpy?  Do you solder or crimp or nuts and bolts, 
>> joints in three at a time...?
>
> I've done it two ways. There's a DX Eng radial plate at the base of my Tee 
> vertical connecting a very large number of on-ground radials. For a couple of 
> verticals sloping off my 120 ft tower, fed at their base and using the tower 
> as a passive reflector, I use copper split-bolt connectors to connect four 
> elevated radials for each sloper. I also use split-bolts to connect on-ground 
> radials for the tower (it needs a good radial system because it's a passive 
> reflector).
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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